Cooler for beverages.



W, E. FISCHER.

COOLER FOR BEVEHAGES.

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UTE@ S atras raum" OFFICE.

WILLIAM R. FISCHER, OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR T0 KOEHLER & I-IINRICHS C0., 0F ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, A CORPORATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA.

COOLER FOR IBEVERAGES.

Application led August 21, 1916.

To a whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM R. FISCHER, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Paul, in the county of Ramsey and State of Minnesota, have invented new and useful Improvements in Coolers for Beverages, of which the following is a specification.

Its object is to provide a cooler for beverages designed to be easily and thoroughly cleansed and which is readily adaptable to contain several beverages in varying quantities.

A further object is to provide a sanitary cooler of this kind having a number of etlluent pipes and a plurality of removable and interchangeable containers adapted to be easily replaced in the cooler and designed to form leak-proof connections with said eiiuent pipes.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved cooler, a part thereof being broken away to show in section its interior; Fig. 2 is a plan view of the cooler with the cover removed; and Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail sectional view of a portion of the bottom of one ofthe receptacles and a portion of the bottom of the tank.

Referring to: the drawing, which illustrates an embodiment of my invention, I have used the reference numeral 10 to indicate a tank having spaced side walls 11 and 12 and spaced bottoms 13 and lil. This tank is Supported upon suitable standards 15 and is supplied with a cover 16 having a handle 17 thereon. A number of 4faucets 18, 19, 2O and 21 are ixed upon the lowerfront side of the cooler and pipes 23, 2li and 25, respectively connected with said faucets, pass rearwardly between the bottoms 13 and 14, thence upward through the inner or false bottom 13. rIhe end of the last named pipe 25 lies flush with the bottom 13, but the remaining pipes extend above it and have threaded ends or nipples 26, opening into `the beverage receptacles or cans 27, preferably cylindrical in form, which may be of metal, glass or stone. Said nipples 26 are each supplied with lock nuts 28 arranged upon and bearing tightl against opposite sides of the bottom 13. ach receptacle has an outlet 29 in its bottom opening into a nipple 26, which outlet 29 is supplied with a flange 30 secured upon the bottom of said receptacle, said flange having a threaded bore to receive the nipple 26. A support is also Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 5, 1918.

sensi No. 115,976.

' formed upon the bottom of each receptacle and may comprise a perforated depending rim 32, as shown,v or a plurality rof legs, or other suitable supporting devices. In placlng a receptacle within the tank 10, the liange 30 is connected to thc nipple 26 in one of the effluent pipes by turning the recep tacle until the rim 32 bears upon the bottom 13. The lower end of the flange 30, which 1s beveled internally, is designed to contact wlth a soft lead gasket 33 on said nipple simultaneously, or substantially so, with the engagement of said rim 32 with the bottom of the tank. If, after continued use, a groove 1s worn in the gasket 33 by the sharp edge 34.- of the iange 30, and the rim 32 strikes the bottom 13 before said flange is seated upon the gasket 33, the bottom 13 of the tank, or the bottom of the receptacle, or both, will spring to permit further rotation of the receptacle until said flange is firmly seated upon said gasket. It vwill be seen that this method of installing a receptacle within the tank is easily accomplished; that the connection between said receptacle and its tacle is firmly and rigidly supported; and I that it may be easily removed for cleaning or other purposes.

To prevent sediment from entering the effluent pipe 25, when water is drawn from the tank for use, I provide a hollow mushroom-shaped strainer@ the stern 35 thereof being tted in the open end of the pipe 25. rlhe enlarged upper end 36 of said strainer is formed with small perforations 37 to admit water and said end is located slightly above the bottom 13 to prevent the entrance of sediment, which may have settled to the bottom. This strainer may be withdrawn from the pipe 25, thus permitting the user to drain the tank.

The space within the tank surrounding the receptacle is adapted to contain water and ice io cool the contents of the receptacles; '/Various sized receptacles may be supplied with the cooler, but the threaded bores in the flanges 30 are uniform, thereby permitting the substitution and interchanging of said rereptacles. This is advantageous because at diiierent seasons, greater or less supplies of certain beverages are demanded, and the capacity of the tank for holding cooling liquid and ice may be in-.. creased by removing certain -of the receptacles or substituting smaller ones; and it is also apparent that the ease with which the tank and receptacles may be cleaned by removing the latter, and the ability to flush the eiiuent pipes with Water from the tank when the receptacles are removed, will encourage the maintenance of the cooler in a sanitary condition.

Having described my invention, vm-at I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is:

l. In a cooler, a tank, a plurality ot' ettluent pipes leading from the tank, said pipes being supplied with threaded ends projecting upward into the tank, lock nuts on said threaded ends bearing against opposite sides of said bottom, a plurality of receptacles, each having an internally threaded flange on the bottom thereof, said receptacles being adapted to be interchangeably attached to said projecting threaded pipes, a support on each receptacle designed to rest upon the bottom of the tank, a gasket on the threaded end of each pipe arranged to be engaged by the flange of a receptacle simultaneously With the engagement of the receptacle support with the bottom of the tank, and faucet-s for said pipes.

Q. In a cooler. a tank, an effluent pipe having a faucet thereon, said pipe being supplied with a threaded end passing'upward through the bottom ot the tank, lock nuts on said pipe bearing against opposite sides of said bottom, a receptacle, an internally threaded flange on the bottom otl said receptacle to receive the threaded end ot said pipe, the lovver end of said flange being beveled internally to form a sharp annular bearing, and a gasket resting upon one ot said lock nuts and providing a seat for said annular bearing.

3. rIn a cooler, a tank, an ettluent pipe having a faucet thereon, said pipe being supplied ivith a threaded end passing upward through the bottom ot' the tank, a receptacle,

an internally threaded tlange on the bottom of said receptacle to receive the threaded end of said pipe, the lovver end ot said flange being beveled internallyr to Jforni a guide for said flange when applied to the 'i pipe and also to forni a sharp annular bear-` ing, and a` gasket on said pipe forming a seat for said annular bearing.

lVhereof, I have hereunto subscribed my naine to this specification.

vVILLAM R. FISCHER. 

